SESSIONPROPERTY (Transact-SQL)

Returns the SET options settings of a session.

Syntax

SESSIONPROPERTY (option)

option
Is the current option setting for this session. option can be any of the following values.

Option	Description
ANSI_NULLS	Specifies whether the ISO behavior of equals (=) and not equal to (<>) against null values is applied. 1 = ON 0 = OFF
ANSI_PADDING	Controls the way the column stores values shorter than the defined size of the column, and the way the column stores values that have trailing blanks in character and binary data. 1 = ON 0 = OFF
ANSI_WARNINGS	Specifies whether the ISO standard behavior of raising error messages or warnings for certain conditions, including divide-by-zero and arithmetic overflow, is applied. 1 = ON 0 = OFF
ARITHABORT	Determines whether a query is ended when an overflow or a divide-by-zero error occurs during query execution. 1 = ON 0 = OFF
CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_ NULL	Controls whether concatenation results are treated as null or empty string values. 1 = ON 0 = OFF
NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT	Specifies whether error messages and warnings are generated when rounding in an expression causes a loss of precision. 1 = ON 0 = OFF
QUOTED_IDENTIFIER	Specifies whether ISO rules about how to use quotation marks to delimit identifiers and literal strings are to be followed. 1 = ON 0 = OFF
<Any other string>	NULL = Input is not valid.

sql_variant

SET options are figured by combining server-level, database-level, and user-specified options.

The following example returns the setting for the CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL option.

SELECT   SESSIONPROPERTY ('CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL')